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Saint Princess Olga by Mikhail Nesterov finished in 1892.
The painting is based on the Viking Regent Olga of Kiev, who in an act of vengeance against a rival tribe that killed her husband ended with her ruling over the region. She converted to Christianity, even though she was unsuccessful with converting her son, Sviatoslav. She was successful in converting her grandson, Vladimir I who made Christianity the state religion. She was canonised by the Eastern Orthodox Church as the patron saint of widows and converts.
The painting is based on the Viking Regent Olga of Kiev, who in an act of vengeance against a rival tribe that killed her husband ended with her ruling over the region. She converted to Christianity, even though she was unsuccessful with converting her son, Sviatoslav. She was successful in converting her grandson, Vladimir I who made Christianity the state religion. She was canonised by the Eastern Orthodox Church as the patron saint of widows and converts.
Olga's husband Prince Igor of Kiev was killed by a rival tribe known as the Drevlians who sent 20 diplomats to inform her about Igor's death and a marriage proposal from Prince Mal the man that killed her husband.
Olga after hearing the news about her husband and the offer from their leader told the diplomats to return to their boat and wait until tomorrow when her assistants will honor them by carrying them back inside their boat like a palanquin to her. The diplomats leave thinking they made progress in their conversation with Olga. Olga's people arrive the next day and carried them in the boat, when they are presented to Olga she then orders for them to be dropped in a pit that was dug the night before, Olga has them buried alive.
Olga sends a message to the Drevlians to bring their most distinguished men to Kiev, "the best men who governed the land of Dereva". So she might go with them to see Prince Mal. The Drevlians were unaware about the 20 men that were killed earlier. When the men arrive, Olga commanded her followers to draw them a bath and invited her guests to see her afterwards, they go inside the bathhouse and Olga traps them inside setting it on fire killing all of them.
Olga sent another message to the Drevlians, this time ordering them to "prepare great quantities of mead in the city where you killed my husband, that I may weep over his grave and hold a funeral feast for him."
When Olga and a small group of attendants arrived at Igor's tomb, she did indeed weep and hold a funeral feast. The Drevlians sat down to join them and began to drink heavily. When the Drevlians were drunk, she ordered her followers to kill them, five thousand Drevlians were killed on this night, but Olga returned to Kiev to prepare an army to finish off the survivors.
Olga's forces did very well in the initial conflict against the Drevlians and drove the survivors back into their cities. Olga then led her army to Iskorosten (what is today Korosten), the city where her husband had been slain, and laid siege to the city. The siege lasted for a year without success, when Olga thought of a plan to trick the Drevlians. She sent them a message: "Why do you persist in holding out? All your cities have surrendered to me and submitted to tribute, so that the inhabitants now cultivate their fields and their lands in peace. But you had rather die of hunger, without submitting to tribute."
The Drevlians responded that they would submit to tribute, but that they were afraid she was still intent on avenging her husband. Olga answered that the murder of the messengers sent to Kiev, as well as the events of the feast night, had been enough for her. She then asked them for a small request: "Give me three pigeons ... and three sparrows from each house." The Drevlians relived that the siege was finally over at such a small cost, agreed to her terms and did as she asked.
Olga then instructed her army to attach a piece of sulphur bound with small pieces of cloth to each bird. At nightfall, Olga told her soldiers to set the pieces aflame and release the birds. They returned to their nests within the city, which subsequently set the city ablaze. It was impossible to stop the flames because all of the houses caught fire at the same time. As the people fled the burning city, Olga ordered her soldiers to catch them, killing some of them and giving the others as slaves to her followers. She spared the rest to pay tribute.
Olga after hearing the news about her husband and the offer from their leader told the diplomats to return to their boat and wait until tomorrow when her assistants will honor them by carrying them back inside their boat like a palanquin to her. The diplomats leave thinking they made progress in their conversation with Olga. Olga's people arrive the next day and carried them in the boat, when they are presented to Olga she then orders for them to be dropped in a pit that was dug the night before, Olga has them buried alive.
Olga sends a message to the Drevlians to bring their most distinguished men to Kiev, "the best men who governed the land of Dereva". So she might go with them to see Prince Mal. The Drevlians were unaware about the 20 men that were killed earlier. When the men arrive, Olga commanded her followers to draw them a bath and invited her guests to see her afterwards, they go inside the bathhouse and Olga traps them inside setting it on fire killing all of them.
Olga sent another message to the Drevlians, this time ordering them to "prepare great quantities of mead in the city where you killed my husband, that I may weep over his grave and hold a funeral feast for him."
When Olga and a small group of attendants arrived at Igor's tomb, she did indeed weep and hold a funeral feast. The Drevlians sat down to join them and began to drink heavily. When the Drevlians were drunk, she ordered her followers to kill them, five thousand Drevlians were killed on this night, but Olga returned to Kiev to prepare an army to finish off the survivors.
Olga's forces did very well in the initial conflict against the Drevlians and drove the survivors back into their cities. Olga then led her army to Iskorosten (what is today Korosten), the city where her husband had been slain, and laid siege to the city. The siege lasted for a year without success, when Olga thought of a plan to trick the Drevlians. She sent them a message: "Why do you persist in holding out? All your cities have surrendered to me and submitted to tribute, so that the inhabitants now cultivate their fields and their lands in peace. But you had rather die of hunger, without submitting to tribute."
The Drevlians responded that they would submit to tribute, but that they were afraid she was still intent on avenging her husband. Olga answered that the murder of the messengers sent to Kiev, as well as the events of the feast night, had been enough for her. She then asked them for a small request: "Give me three pigeons ... and three sparrows from each house." The Drevlians relived that the siege was finally over at such a small cost, agreed to her terms and did as she asked.
Olga then instructed her army to attach a piece of sulphur bound with small pieces of cloth to each bird. At nightfall, Olga told her soldiers to set the pieces aflame and release the birds. They returned to their nests within the city, which subsequently set the city ablaze. It was impossible to stop the flames because all of the houses caught fire at the same time. As the people fled the burning city, Olga ordered her soldiers to catch them, killing some of them and giving the others as slaves to her followers. She spared the rest to pay tribute.
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